Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to a centre (details supplied) in view of the number of referrals the centre gets from probation officers and that the centre's other sources of funding will run out at the end of 2014, following the disbanding of the charitable lotteries fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43824/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The misuse of alcohol affects the individual, the family and society. The Government has approved an extensive package of measures to deal with alcohol misuse to be incorporated in a Public Health (Alcohol) Bill. These measures are based on the recommendations contained in the Steering Group Report on a National Substance Misuse Strategy, 2012.

The provision of services to prevent and treat addiction to alcohol is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive and as such, I have referred this question to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office who will follow up the matter with it.